Newsletter: The Secret Lives of Adjectives

The Secret Lives of Adjectives

This week, we’re going to learn how to say how amazing, hardworking, patient, attentive, interesting, studious we are… by mastering French descriptive adjectives 🤗

Of course, as always with French, there is an extra subtlety to using adjectives compared to English: not only do you need to agree the adjective with its related noun in number (singular or plural) but also in gender (feminine or masculine)… Quelle galère ! 😅

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Quote me on this!

French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

Guy de Maupassant

Discover what this great French author had to say about adjectives:

“Quelle que soit la chose qu’on veut dire, il n’y a qu’un mot pour l’exprimer, qu’un verbe pour l’animer et qu’un adjectif pour la qualifier.”

(Whatever one wishes to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to bring it to life, and only one adjective to describe it.)

French Building Blocks

Feminine of Adjectives – A1/A2 Level

cute little dog jumping in the air

Have a look at the following sentence, packed with French adjectives in the feminine form:

“Ma nouvelle chienne Vanille était vive et malicieuse, câline et tendre, têtue et rigolote. En un mot, absolument… parfaite.”

To check your answers and potentially refresh your memory on this topic, here’s a personalised Notebook, full of related Kwiziq lessons, to test yourself against!

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Let’s fill in some blanks!

Agreement of Adjectives – A1 Level

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Practise the agreement of your French adjectives with this friendly fill-in-the-blank exercise while describing your best friends:

Mes meilleurs amis

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This week’s theme is Descriptions.

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Aurélie Drouard

Kwiziq French Expert

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Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!